INES Levels
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INES 0
INES 1
INES 2
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INES 7

INES 2: Incident

Impact on People and Environment:
  • Exposure of a member of the public in excess of 10 mSv.
  • Exposure of a worker in excess of the statutory annual limits.
Impact on Radiological Barriers and Control:
  • Radiation levels in an operating area of more than 50 mSv/h.
  • Significant contamination within the facility into an area not expected by design.
Impact on Defence-in-Depth:
  • Significant failures in safety ­provisions but with no actual ­consequences.
  • Found highly radioactive sealed orphan source, device or transport package with safety provisions intact.
  • Inadequate packaging of a highly radioactive sealed source.
▸ Legenda & explanation
date title location 
2018-09-24Misdelivered Radioactive Transport PackagesUnited KingdomExport packing company in vicinity of Heathrow
1991-09-13METALLURGICAL FLAW IN SECONDARY STEAM PIPEFranceFESSENHEIM-1
1992-10-11METALLURGICAL DEFECTS ON THE MAIN STEAM LINES OF A REACTORFranceST. ALBAN-1
2010-04-20Member of the Public OverexposureUnited States of AmericaOhio State University, Columbus Ohio
1999-05-08Melting of a radioactive source with scrap metalsGreeceSCRAPYARD
2006-07-24Lost of type A radioactive package during transport from Brussels to BucharestRomaniaInternational Transport
2002-04-24Lost Iridium-192 SourceUnited States of AmericaBirmingham
1998-05-07Loss of ventilation in Dounreay fuel cycle areaUnited KingdomDOUNREAY
2012-02-09Loss of shutdown cooling due to station blackout during refueling outageSouth KoreaKORI-1
1999-11-27Loss of reactor coolant system inventoryUnited States of AmericaWATERFORD-3
2009-08-31Loss of Radiation SourceIranBirjand University
1998-12-27Loss of off-site power supplies at Hunterston B Power StationUnited KingdomHUNTERSTON-B1 UNIT A
2019-11-12Loss of liquor from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo original building primary containmentUnited KingdomSellafield Site - Magnox Swarf Storage Silo
2006-05-22Loss of Industrial Gamma Radiography Exposure Device (IGRED) containing Ir-192 sourceIndiaIndustrial Radiography
2006-11-06Loss of Industrial Gamma Radiography Exposure Device (IGRED) containing Ir-192 radiography sourceIndiaIndustrial Radiography
2007-04-25Loss of Industrial Gamma Radiography Exposure Device (IGRED) containing Ir-192 radiography sourceIndiaIndustrial Radiography
2007-08-26Loss of Industrial Gamma Radiography Exposure Device (IGRED) containing Ir-192 radiography sourceIndiaIndustrial Radiography
1990-12-04LOSS OF ELECTRICAL OFF-SITE POWER AFFECTED THE FOUR UNITS LOAD REJECTION AND DIESEL GENERATOR FAILEDCzech RepublicDUKOVANY-1
2002-07-17Loss of an industrial radiography exposure device containing 0.73 TBq of Iridium-192IndiaTransportation
2012-11-19loss of a package containing medical radioactive fluorine, during a transport operation in NimesFranceNîmes University Hospital
1999-03-04Loss of 7 TBq of Mo-99 in B(U) packagingSouth AfricaSOUTH AFRICAN AE CORP.
1998-05-08Loss of 4 TBq of Mo-99 in B(U) PackagingSouth AfricaSOUTH AFRICAN AE CORP.
1998-05-08Loss of 4 TBq of Mo-99 in B(U) packagingSouth AfricaSOUTH AFRICAN AE CORP.
2002-05-23LOSS AND RECOVERY OF SEALED SOURCEUnited States of AmericaHavre
2002-03-11Localised High Dose Rates on the Underside of a Radioactive Material Transport PackageUnited KingdomUK Transport Event
2011-02-16Level 2 incident on INES scale concerning back-up diesel generators at Tricastin nuclear power plantFranceTRICASTIN-3
2011-12-21Level 2 incident on INES scale concerning a pipe nonconformity in two Cattenom NPP fuel storage poolsFranceCATTENOM-2 and 3
2019-12-31Lens of the eye overexposure to interventionalist radiologistUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom, Wales, Hospital
1996-12-14Leakage on a piping connected to the primary circuitFranceDAMPIERRE-1
1997-07-14Leakage of water in the primary cooling system of AERE Reasearch CentreBangladeshTRIGA MARK II